I’m struggeling to activate autologin in Ubuntu Budgie 18.10. I can activate it in user settings but after reboot the setting is reverted back to deactiveted.
Choose Menu - Login Window and click on the Users tab.
At the bottom enter into the field the name of the account you want to login as - tab away to save automatically and reboot.
User name was allready listed in Login Window/Users Tab as Autologin. Deleted it and tried again, no effect.
It seems there are two places where this can be defined:
- Login Window -> users tab (setting remains after reboot)
- Settings/information/user (setting reverts after reboot)
I have no effect changing the one or the other or both. Still requests password after reboot.
Update,
I realised that the setting in Login Window will keep my username in autostart even when I deleted it. This happens after restarting of the app.
Is there a config file to maintain the autologin manually? Setting is actually in etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf but I would have expected in etc/lightdm/users.conf.
Not sure what is happening with your setup
I can add my login name to “Login Window” and it will autostart without any issues
If I then go in and delete my name, “Login Window” removes the name and autostart is disabled.
/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf is updated by “Login Window”
I did a fresh install the other day. Setup is unchanged.
Any idea if the access rights to the conf file needs to be changed/corrected?
This is my setup
This is my setup:
And what happens if you replace the contents to what is my setup (obviously change the user name to dominik!) ?
changed it accordingly, no change 
hmm… sorry - no idea 